Kalodont is a toothpaste brand by Croatian manufacturer Saponia, based in Osijek. [1]
The original product was manufactured by F. A. Sarg's Sohn & Co. from Vienna, and sold in Austria-Hungary starting with 1887. It later became widely distributed, in 34 other countries, and obtained a near-monopoly status that caused the word "kalodont" to become synonymous with the word for "tooth paste" in South Slavic languages. [2] It was also advertised and sold in Russia in 1927. [3] Production, at the time based in Yugoslavia, ceased in 1981, [2] but the product returned to the market in 2012, as Saponia attempted to revitalize its old brands. [4]
Aside from being a toothpaste brand, the name is used for a popular South Slavic word game.
